Chapter 20: Guards

The mage under the cloak quickly chanted a spell, stirring up a layer of air around her, merging on top of her head, forming an eye-shaped ball of energy, a true vision that allows the caster to see a person or object in a state of retreat, she pointed to the side of the warrior, "Three points to a stalker." ”

As soon as the mage finished speaking, a figure on the right side of the warrior stood out from the darkness, the dagger in his hand stabbed straight into the warrior's neck, the warrior stepped back and dodged the attack with his right hand and swung his sword, and the other dagger of the stalker blocked the attack and jumped backwards.

Before the mage could cast a spell, a figure appeared behind her, the dagger stabbed directly into the mage's waist, and the spell sequence was activated instantly, turning into eight mage human forms, each of which was covered by stones The mage's whole body, the pure white magic shield flashed with energy, and the eight flame shields almost became a wall of fire.

Biantris also cast a spell, the golden powder floated into the air, slowly fell to the ground, did not stay in the air, he carefully observed the surroundings, and whispered: "The Flying Fish Kamen is the elite assassination team of the dark elves, they never act alone, their target is the mage who casts the spell, be careful around!" Mara quickly chanted the stone shield technique to ensure her safety. Tarrant keeps an eye on his surroundings, and must be careful with every step he takes in the fight against the Stalker. The mages of the mage array were not affected by the unexpected situation, they all focused on the assistance of the battlefield, and the duty of the Dharma Protector team was to ensure their safety.

The front team is already in a dogfight, and after the attack, they quickly sneak up on it, and their level is better than the stalkers they have seen in the Psiccubus lair.

The druid team has entered the battle, the crouching druid barely fought the stalker in human form, and directly turned into his secondary form, a giant werewolf, with a sharper sense of smell and speed, the druid he saw in the morning also turned into a brown bear, but the remaining female druid did not deform, but just kept casting spells, facing werewolves and brown bears, the masked killer was not afraid, leaving several wounds on their bodies.

There was no fighting on this side, Tarrant tried not to pay attention to them, the chaos of the battlefield prevented him from paying attention to the sounds, the four of them stood still in all directions, Tarrant asked, "Can't the True Vision spot them?"

"It's difficult, the magic resistance of Xun Tie equipment makes the killer's stealth not to be discovered by the magic light, only high-level mages can do it without being affected by Xun Tie resistance, Mara, you try!"

Mara was about to cast a spell, the team was attacked, six stalkers stabbed at the team in six directions, Biantris twin swords flew out, interrupting the attack of the two stalkers, Tarrant didn't have time to swing his sword, only used his right arm to block the dagger, the armor of his right arm was directly pierced, and a bloody mouth was drawn, Elliot reacted in time to block the first attack, Mara was attacked left and right, and there was no weapon in hand, under the attack, the stone shield instantly turned into nothing.

Elliot shouted, "Spread out, or you won't be able to make a big move, protect your back!"

Back-to-back tactics are cumbersome in the face of Kamen Killers, and if you take a squatting dodge, your teammates in the back will be attacked, and if you can't dodge sharply, you will be constrained by the enemy, and the captain adopts a separate defensive strategy.

Mara raised her left hand ring, energy flashed, Mara transformed into five human figures, so that the stalker had no idea where to start, the wrestling between the two sides whoever made the first move could seize the opportunity, but it would also expose itself, and after the illusion, the Flying Fish Kamen would prioritize attacking other targets.

Tarrant rolled to the side and didn't calm down, there was a cold wind in his ears, his giant sword stabbed at the cold wind, "bell", the giant sword hit the metal, flashing a star of sparks, but the stalker did not sneak again, but took advantage of the situation to continue to attack, which caught Tarrant off guard, and hurriedly used the sword as a shield to block the dagger, and the stalker slammed his knee into Tarrant's left wrist with a small leap, causing Tarrant to lose his balance and fall down.

At the moment of falling to the ground, Tarrant quickly turned over, and the stalker followed closely with continuous attacks, only a pause from Tarrant was needed to succeed, Tarrant immediately thought of a plan to counterattack, turned over a few times and then slammed his left hand on the ground, flipping an arc, the giant sword in his right hand swung out like a fan, the stalker blocked it in front of him with a dagger, the two weapons hit together, the dagger was shocked and flew out, the stalker stopped the attack, and quickly merged with the surroundings into stealth.

Mara finished chanting True Vision under the protection of the illusion, she pointed at Elliott's back, "Stalker!" At the same time, the fingertip magic missile was instantly released, Elliott turned and slashed, the stalker blocked with a dagger, but was hit by the incoming magic missile in the shoulder, the dagger in his hand shook off, and Elliott's flaming sword slashed through the dark elf armor, cutting the stalker in half.

True Sight allows Mara to see more of the Stalker, and she chants the restriction spell Cobweb.

A slight murmur came from behind, and Tarrant looked around in dismay, exclaiming, "Dark Elf mage?"

"Didn't I say that?" Biantris replied back, "The Flying Fish Kamen is an elite combat power, not just for Stalkers!"

With the spell cast by the dark elf, his figure appeared in a clearing not far away, and around Biantris, four horizontal rays of light were generated in four directions, turning into squares and gradually shrinking, locking the poet in the middle of the square.

"Oops!" Biantris shouted, "protect yourself and wait for me to come back!" he took out a handful of powder from his side, and as soon as he let go and sprinkled the powder, the square had finished locking, and the square energy on the ground rushed straight up, forming a cube that surrounded the poet, and in a blink of an eye, the square disappeared, and the poet disappeared, leaving only some faintly glowing powder on the ground.

Labyrinth, ignoring the target's magic resistance and immunity, forcibly takes the target to the Chaos Space Labyrinth created by the mage, the target will find the exit hidden by the mage in the maze, and the time of being trapped depends on the target's intelligence and rational thinking ability.

Seeing that the poet was trapped, Mara quickly reported the location of the stalker, "Tarrant, three stalkers at six-four-eight, Elliot, two-five", and then she began to cast a spell against the Dark Elf mage, a thunderbolt brewing in her palm.

The two of them ended chanting almost at the same time, and the two of them grazed in the air, until the target on the opposite side, the dark elf mage was paralyzed under the bombardment of the lightning attack, and half knelt down, Mara's illusion technique was also recognized and cracked by the opponent's spell, revealing its true location.

After Mara reported the Stalker's location, Tarrant immediately realized that he was surrounded by three Stalkers, and he immediately shifted his position before the Stalker attacked, and the Stalker would not choose to pursue and reveal his location. Mara no longer has defenses, and the Stalker's next move will be to list her as the first target, Tarrant approached Mara's side and whispered, "Report the location, I'll deal with them." ”

The two already had a tacit understanding, Mara nodded in agreement, she chanted the doppelganger technique, different from the effect of the illusion technique, the illusion technique only creates a few identical illusions, which can be eliminated by the other party, and the doppelganger technique is to create a creature with the same appearance as oneself, in order to confuse the opponent, the caster can enter a high-level stealth state, under the protection of this state, the caster can cast spells or attack, only showing faint traces, and will not eliminate the stealth state.

The Dark Elf Mage who stood up failed to detect the doppelganger spell, and slammed a meteor into Mara's doppelganger, causing the doppelganger to fall to the ground with a large amount of blood spitting out of his mouth. Mara was able to escape and follow Tarrant, and a stalker appeared behind Tarrant, and the stalkers were already proud of being out of sight's surveillance, and boldly approached Tarrant, and Mara whispered to Tarrant's rear to be on guard.

Tarrant held his back until the source of the sound approached, slashing backwards with maximum force, to the surprise of the Stalker, the dagger stopped in the air and fell backwards.

The Flying Fish Kamen immediately realized that Mara on the ground was an illusion, and her true body had been hidden in a state of invisibility, and the Dark Elf Mage also sang True Vision, and the Stalker stayed where she was and stopped attacking, and Mara continued to instruct: "Five steps ahead." ”

Tarrant quickly stepped forward and slashed with the giant sword, the stalker hurriedly blocked with the dagger, the two forces were staggered, so that the stalker showed his position, this panicked situation could not continue to sneak, the stalker fought with Tarrant with the fighting skills of a thief, the dagger in his left hand blocked, the dagger in his right hand attacked, Tarrant's sword shadow came out, overwhelming the opponent in strength, the stalker retreated step by step, Mara quickly cast an acid arrow and shot it in the stalker's leg, the stalker knelt on the ground on his right knee, facing Tarrant's greatsword, he couldn't move, his knee was eroded by acid, when the greatsword merged into his body, he only felt a fatal burn, he felt the pain and fear of death。

After chanting the True Sight of the Dark Elf mage on the other side, he saw Mara beside Tarrant and shouted in Elven language, "Woerloprdimzno!"

When the two stalkers heard the instructions, they rushed over, they were already out of the stealth, and there was no point in continuing to sneak under Mara's sight, it would only limit their speed.

Tarrant and Elliott flanked Mara, protecting the mage. The two mages cast spells again, and the battle can be ended by killing the right mage first, and the most direct spell is the most effective without the protection of protective spells, Mara chanted a meteorstorm.

The mage also decided to deal a fatal blow to Mara, and the purple energy converged on his fingertips, killing a finger.

Just as the casting was about to end, something unexpected happened, a black long sword stabbed out of the chest of the dark elf mage, and the continuous diffuse aura of death proved the ability of this sword, the mage's casting stopped, the purple energy of his fingertips dissipated in the air, he turned his head stiffly, his pupils dilated instantly, he was surprised by the blow. The mage's spell sequence technique was opened, and his corpse disappeared from view, it was a stealth spell, and he planned to use the sequence technique to escape, but he didn't expect to be directly assassinated.

Biantris' eyes looked bloodthirsty and terrifying, and he drew his longsword and stepped on the invisible corpse, "Damn it. ”

The remaining stalkers had their backs to their mages, and before they realized that the rear support had been wiped out, they continued to fight the two warriors, and Mara's meteorstorm target shifted to them, breaking the ribs in the stalker's chest.

The last stalker was killed by the poet's clean sword, a dagger that could block Tarrant's sword, but not Biantris' silver fang.

"Six stalkers, one mage," Tarrant cleared, "and a bit of a contribution." ”

Elliott tucked the sword into his waist and put the shield behind his back, "What's the task now?"

"I'll have to take a look, Mara, you look at the mage's corpse," Biantris crouched down beside a stalker, groping for the corpse's pocket, finding nothing, flipping open his leather armor and imprinting a badge on the dark elf's chest.

On the corpse of the invisible mage, there is also this badge. Tarrant asked, "What do you mean?"

"Family badges, the dark elves are extremely cruel and bloody in the underground world, if you don't have a belonging, you will be trampled under anyone's feet, so you have to find a power group, over time, the dark elf society has formed countless family forces, and each family will customize a badge to confirm their allies. I know this family, Poda Ridge. ”

A circle of patterns on the corpse surrounded a blood-colored B, a strange badge, and Tarrant looked through the other corpses, all of them branded this badge on their chests, "In other words, it is the Poda Island family that is fighting with us this time?"

"Yes, the army of the dark elves is in the hands of various families, their power has no concept of a country, only a family, territory, faith and mother, all the dark elves are subject to the mother of the largest family, she directly rules the world of dark elves, and the mothers of other families rule their own forces. Poda Island is one of the most vigorous clans, and their power has approached the position of the largest clan, that is, the ruling clan. This attack was carried out by the Poda Ridge forces, and it was also their men in the afternoon. ”

"Biantris, didn't the maze just now stump you?" Mara didn't care about the underground, she was more concerned about how someone could get out of the maze so quickly.

"Well, haha", Biantris smug and almost lost his temper, twisting his fingers.

Tarrant couldn't stand the man's money-grabbing behavior, and he looked at the poet angrily.

Under the angry gaze, the poet awkwardly withdrew his fingers, and said honestly: "A little trick, the maze technique has a very simple cracking technique, just place this before teleporting", he took out some slightly glowing powder from his pocket, "Luminous dragonfly powder, after arriving at the maze, you can look for the place where the light shines, the connection between the maze and the original world will give you some information, and it will be no problem to find it with your heart." ”

"Is there a way?" Elliott asked, he had been trapped by the maze for several hours, and finally the effect of the maze disappeared before returning to the Redstone Continent, that experience was a nightmare for him, he carefully recalled the details of the chaotic space, "Is there a connection between the labyrinth and the original world?

"Don't believe the eyes, in the world of labyrinths, everything you see with your eyes is what the magician wants to see for you, and the truth is hidden in these illusions. ”

Esoteric rhetoric, Elliott shrugged his shoulders, unable to verify the truth of the poet's words.

The battle on the druid's side is over, and Tarrant is surprised to find that the female druid can transform into a hive spider, which is a very strange ability. Ordinary druids can transform into both bear and wolf forms, while druids' shifting class shapeshifters can transform into more animals and have their abilities, such as werewolves, which are immune to most weapons, and will heal immediately even if they have wounds, and can only be destroyed if they exceed the limit of what the werewolf can withstand or decapitate in an instant. It is rare to become a ventral nest spider, the ventral nest spider is a fragile creature, it is weak, especially the place where the abdominal spots are deadly heart positions, in the battle, the belly nest spider can spray a very sticky spider web, the enemy's containment zuΓ² is larger, the spider's toxin has a strong paralyzing effect on humanoid creatures, but not fatal.

The ground over there is covered with yellow-green sticky, which is the cobwebs of the hinged spiders, and in the battle just now, they used the cobwebs to contain the stalkers' movements, and then the werewolves solved the manifest stalkers, which is a good cooperation.

Now that the wings were safe, only the battle methods in front of the formation were entangled with the two dark elf warriors, and a few corpses lay at their feet.

"It's wonderful, like teaching", Biantris sat down on a rock, quietly admiring the battle in front of him.

The duel between the warrior who easily kills the demon and the dark elf killer is full of suspense, every blow of both sides is poured ten percent of the strength, the swordsmanship of the two is like two mages with blades and body protection rubbing against each other, constantly bursting out of sparks, but never touching each other, the warrior suddenly held the sword in his backhand, and rotated the giant sword in his hand to form a sword mirror, which is a sword master.

The sword mirror surrounded the dark elf killer from all directions, and the killer's weapon was shocked back every time he touched the sword mirror, and after three consecutive touches, the sword mirror had forced the killer into a dead corner, and the dark elf killer took a deep breath and actually split the long sword in his hand into two, and the two long swords swung around the body of the dark elf, like two horizontal sword arcs spreading outward with themselves as the center, and the sword dancer's stunt sword dance.

Sword dancers are masters of using swords, special warriors, who pursue the direction and skill of using swords in addition to the speed of using swords, and abandon the increase in strength, so that they can attack in a posture that is admired by others, like a dance in swordsmanship. The Juggernaut class focuses on improving the proficiency of weapons, showing strength and suppression, and fighting against them, with every blow making people feel breathless pressure.

The two sword-wielding warriors approached each other with their own stunts, the collision of weapons made a pleasant "ding" sound, and as the two approached, the three weapons fused together and let out a cry that tore through space like a storm.

With a "bang", the weapon in the right hand of the dark elf flew out and was inserted in the wasteland in the distance, and the sword on the left hand was nowhere to be found, the sword mirror lost its obstruction, and more than a dozen wounds were cut on his body in an instant, and the leather armor of the dark elf was split into pieces, and it was over, and the dark elf fell to his knees.

"Terrible combat power, fortunately not us", Elliott watched the thrilling scene.

"I hope the Juggernaut is okay. The poet got up meaningfully and ran towards the Juggernaut.

The Juggernaut fell without warning, pressing on the Dark Elf, and on his back was the missing sword of the Dark Elf's left hand.

Tarrant had already seen the Dark Elf's suicide attack, and he immediately understood what had just happened, the Dark Elf Sword Dancer could not break through the Sword Lord's sword mirror, and the two were evenly matched, and in order to complete the task, the Dark Elf flew out of his left hand and stabbed the Sword Saint's back in an arc, and the frontal attack immediately collapsed and was cut into pieces.

Behind him came the faint sound of stepping on the grass, and Tarrant turned, three dark elves.

A dark elf is wrapped in a cloak, has no weapons, no armor on his body, and even no shoes, a typical warrior monk, the dark elf in the middle is dressed in a brown robe, holding a slightly glowing staff in his hand, and the other dark elf is holding a slightly black long sword, leather armor to protect himself, warrior.

"How long can you protect your mage?" a scornful smile appeared on the dark elf warrior's cyan face.